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If I lost my wallet words why can’t I recover my Bitcoin with just a backup?

Because if you could, anyone could. If your cloud-based backup leaked out of the cloud and onto a thief’s computer, the thief could steal all your Bitcoin.

To restore your wallet, and recover your Bitcoin, you must have your wallet words.

I’ve lost my wallet words but my wallet still works what should I do?

Sweep your Bitcoin to a new wallet immediately. Don’t delay. Here is the procedure:

Create a new wallet using the Create button on the Unlock screen

Make sure you write down your wallet words and date stamp as usual

Unlock the new wallet and wait for sync to finish

Create a new receiving address and copy it to the clipboard – you don’t need an amount. Note the first and last parts of the address.

Use Exit/Switch and select Switch to return to the Unlock screen

Unlock the old wallet and wait for sync to finish

Use Tools | Empty wallet to spend all your funds to the new wallet address (paste from clipboard and verify it is unchanged)

Do not delete your old wallet – others may still accidentally spend it and you’ll need to access it to sweep those funds

An alternative and more private approach to a single “Empty wallet” would be to split your overall balance over several smaller transactions made to different receiving addresses from the new wallet. This would help to disguise your balance and allow you to test the process with smaller spends. The final spend should use Tools | Empty wallet so that an optimal miner’s fee selection can be made and correctly zero your balance.

You can also use Manage wallet | Edit wallet to provide a note indicating that the wallet words are lost and you should avoid using that wallet for day to day use in the future.

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